GOP leader convicted of corruption

Joseph Bruno is the former Republican leader of the New York Senate.

The longtime legislator has now been convicted on 2 counts at his federal corruption trial. Bruno had been accused of accepting millions of dollars from people seeking business with the state. One of the charges he was convicted of dealt with a businessman who paid him $80,000 for a "virtually worthless" horse.

Sentencing for the disgraced politician looms in March.

It's hard for me to shed any tears over Joe Bruno's conviction. He was face-deep in the strange "soak-the-poor" fetish of the '90s.

Nonetheless, what do right-wing commenters on news sites say about this scandal? One said, "This is why we need to vote out the Democrats in 2010." Uh, Bruno is a Republican, you moron.

(Source: http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20091207/NEWS01/91207038/Bruno-found-guilty-on-2-of-8-charges)